[geeks] Flicker users u in arms over MS acquisition...

[James Fogg]

> I always had a problem understanding how Netscape made real money with
> thier
> product (I understand how they made money as a stock) - they had the
most
> convoluted marketing for the browser that I've ever seen. Now that I
think
> it
> through, I suppose they made real money by selling site licenses to
large
> organizations and OS vendors, as well as from their server software,
but
> taking something free and making money out of it is not unique
(Apache,
> Sendmail, etc.) but they were among the first...


I used to work for Marc Andreessen in his post-Netscape venture. I also
worked for a large Netscape customer. The core of Netscape's income was
their server product. At the time, it was the best high volume reliable
web server one could find at any price. And it wasn't cheap.